It has a wonderful approach, not just during the day but at night, too, when Edward I’s magnificent castle is lit up. It is one of Europe’s finest medieval towns. Its walls, along which you can walk, and which are three quarters of a mile long, offer sweeping views over the town and out to sea. It also has one of the best examples in the country of an Elizabethan house, Plas Mawr. On the quay, children love visiting the Smallest House in Great Britain. These are just a few of Conwy’s attractions.

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Further feedback from readers

Manta ray sightings

In your excellent article on the sardine run (“Catch me if you can”, August 15), Roca Partida is listed as one of Monty Halls’ s favourite sites. Unfortunately, the details are incorrect. Roca Partida is not in the Sea of Cortez but is one of the Revillagigedo islands , more than 350 miles south west off the tip of Baja California. It is known for its sharks, especially pregnant white-tipped sharks, rather than manta rays. The main site for manta rays is another island in the group, San Benedicto , which is where they were videoed for the BBC documentary Shark. When my wife and I dived there earlier this year, we had seven of these magnificent creatures, all more than 20ft across, swimming around us. At Roca Partida, we saw eight species of sharks, including a 30ft whale shark. The Revillagigedo islands are a truly magical dive location.

Allan Carr

Surly of San Siro

I can appreciate the awe experienced by Anthony Peregrine (“Peregrinations”, August 15) when he went on a tour of the impressive-looking San Siro stadium in Milan with an atmosphere recalling some great footballing moments.

But the casual visitor to a match there should be aware of significant shortcomings not seen on a tour. I have been to several games at San Siro and they were characterised by surly and uncooperative stewards and aggressive police. Having been to matches in most of the great European football stadiums, this is the place I least like to visit.

As the stadium is owned by the council, and two clubs play there, if anything goes wrong, everyone can blame someone else – for example, no one will take responsibility for the absence of promised public transport after a late match.

Perhaps the worst issue is the toilet provision. In one section, accommodating several thousand fans, there were only 10 urinals for men and six toilet cubicles for women. How the stadium gets an elite rating from Uefa defeats me.

Anthony Slade

Borneo’s orang-utans

By listing Brunei Airlines among her favourite airlines and praising the Brunei people, Kellie Maloney (“Travelling life”, August 15) gives the impression that orang-utans can be seen in that country. Their rainforest home on the island of Borneo does not extend to the northern coast that comprises the Sultanate of Brunei , though Brunei can make an excellent base for onward travel.

The neighbouring Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak offer the best chances to see orang-utans in their natural habitat, along with proboscis monkeys and pygmy elephants . These states offer better tourist facilities than the southern, Indonesian part of Borneo, which is, however, cheaper and offers more scope for off-the-beaten-track travel.

The Bornean orang-utan is listed as endangered as a result of illegal logging and poaching. There are now about 40,000 left in the wild. Patience is required for anyone who wants to see them, as their habitats are a challenge to reach – you will have to use local air transport and the final legs will sometimes be by boat – and wild orang-utans spend their entire lives in trees.

Malcolm Watson

Reader opinion polls

After the bombing in Bangkok this week, a plucky 56 per cent of Telegraph Travel readers answered “no” in our online poll asking: “Will today’s explosion make you less likely to visit Thailand?” In other reader polls:

� 56 per cent answered “no” to the question, “Would you consider a city break in Sheffield?”, after it emerged that the Yorkshire city immortalised in the film The Full Monty had for the second year running been voted best-value city-break destination.

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